#and i’m so tired

[queen-breha-organa]

I want to talk a little bit about Hawai‘i, because I have been thinking a lot about my people, and our lives.

The year 2023 marks 130 years since the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

On January 17th 1893, American businessman used their connections and military influence to dethrone Queen Liliuokalani by threat of force.

This annexation still impacts my people 130 years later. It still hurts us, it still haunts us,

For the last 130 years my people have suffered under America’s cruelty and indifference.

Unsustainable Tourism haunts us, causing a cost of living crisis, which turns into a rise in poverty, which turns into a rise in individuals experiencing homelessness. This cost crisis disproportionately effects my people, Kānaka Maoli. We cannot even afford to live on our on land. Our ancestral home.

And in turn, tourism then provides the most jobs. This industry pushes us off our land and into poverty, and then it turns around and sells us back our culture as a walking joke.

Our very identity is turned into entertainment. Our very culture is turned into entertainment.

And many of my people have no choice but to sell their culture so they can eat, so they can survive.

We have been put in a never ending cycle of misery and cultural destruction.

In addition, Military Involvement on our islands causes repeated incidents of ecological violence, and land disputes. The military take claim to land that belongs to my people, and they spill chemicals over and over, and poison the water we drink.

My people are suffering. Our culture is suffering.

And everyday more tourists come. Everyday more land is taken to build hotels. Everyday more culture is stripped and bastardized. Everyday more land is taken for military use.

I’m so tired of living this way. I’m so tired of waking up and watching the slow and agonizing death of my people.

I want us to live. I want us to thrive.

I want my people to survive.

I want to survive.

So please read up on the current issues that face Kānaka Maoli. Please educate yourself on my people’s history and current affairs.

Speak up and speak out. Talk about unsustainable tourism, and speak up about how harmful a “vacation” to Hawai‘i can be. Talk about the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and it’s injustice.

Hawai‘i is Hawaiians. Hawai‘i is our history. Hawai‘i is our home. Hawai‘i is the very blood that runs through our veins.

So please do not forget us, and please speak up with us.

Support Hawaiian Sovereignty. Restore Hawai‘i to Hawaiians.

Resources & Education:

[chloryn]

eddie munson is chronically insane. and i’m talking chronically insane enough to decide one day in his sophomore year, he was going to fuck steve harrington. no matter what it took.

and when eddie realizes he can’t just do that, he gets creative. he starts watching steve, following him home in his van, watching steve’s routine meticulously.

three years later, he would finally have enough information and a perfect opportunity. he would befriend mike first, pulling him in the direction of the dnd club, making this a win/win for eddie.

then sweet, sweet dustin. who loves steve. worships him.

and that’s it, that’s his in.

and after three years of fucking his hand sloppily, cumming with steve’s name on the tip of his tongue. he would finally be that close.

dustin would introduce them, and eddie would be dramatic. pulling out stop after stop, making sure to list all the heinous things steve did to him during his reign of crown prince.

he would spend time at the video store frequently. renting movies he knew steve would watch with him.

he’d bring steve snacks, telling him he knew how hard it must’ve been to work all day in such a small store.

he’d bribe steve with a joint, the catch being he’d have to smoke it at the trailer.

and through his perseverance, eddie would get his wish one night. after drunk kisses and sloppy confessions, a smug grin crossing his face.

eddie pulled out the sealed bottle of lube from his nightstand, drizzling it on his fingers. warming it up. he’d stretch steve so slowly, savoring every noise and movement he made.

he’d slide in so smoothly. and he’d last all of 60 seconds.

but he had done it. and he wouldn’t be able to stop. he’d keep doing it for months. and he’d would get so much better.

he’d keep steve there for hours in his bed, ungodly hours while he had the trailer to himself.

and once that settled, he would propose to have proper dates with steve. he’d bring him flowers, and sing him love songs.

because he had fucked him, but now he had to have him.

steve said yes every time of course, oblivious to the way eddie was eating him up.

tldr; stalker eddie and his oblivious boyfriend

[mxthgrinder]

the sheep and the rabbit

[onesmolbean49]

Late night sketch with a different brush. I really like how it looks!

[tim-drake-scholar]

Fic where Tim and Bernard go on vacation to Point Place West Virginia bc Bernard loves cryptids and the entire time Bernard keeps asking if Batman knows Mothman

[a-bucket-in-the-void]

i really need a nap. and for some of you to be my irl friends not just online but mostly i just need a nap

[curiosity-killed]

Did not get to take the rest of the day off, did have frustrating coworker convos, so I am embarking on round 2 of trying to get my library book and then decaying on the couch for the rest of the evening

[diivineray]

Had a really bad breakdown in front of my parents. Basically, telling them how tired, sad and scared I am about my health.

Things are getting bad, and as much as I try to ignore it. Try to down play it, it’s really effecting me. I try my best to be strong, a lot of it for the sake of others around me but it’s hard.

I’m not in the best of spaces mentally. All week I’ve literally just log off work and lay in bed and just try and space out as. Much as I can.

Please forgive me if I’m slow as responding to dm’s and such. I’m planning on sleeping here soon because my head is killing me and my eye hurts and is sore from the injections.

[constellations-and-energy]

idk how much longer i can keep “its gonna be okay!”-ing my way through life, fellas

[kdramacrybaby]

“I thought I could become okay by pretending. But it turned out time couldn’t heal everything if I kept running away. For time to heal my wounds, I needed to stay true to my emotions and ride out the pain and grief. I don’t think people have to be okay all the time. Nor can they be.”

I’m just gonna leave that there and go cry in a corner for a minute

[thecandlesticksfromlesmis]

fandom needs to both calm the fuck down and also get as SILLY as humanly possible. if I wanted everything I interacted with to be “””””ACCURATE””””” I’d read/watch the source material. I just wanna have a fun silly time tbh?? I get it that it’s hard to read a fic where the character you like is acting a lil outside the canon bounds but you know what?? That shit HITS for someone, let them have it. Let them be a little silly, I say, a little fun, just as a treat! As long as no community or no person is being harmed in the creation and execution of the fan work, it has a place. Yes, even the shit you hate. IT HAS A PLACE!!!

[roguelov]

I think I might shave my head again for all the wrong reasons

[megatraven]

work was so shit today oh my god. the shift before mine didn’t finish their work so I had to do it which put me so far behind my own work that I had to stay for 40 fucking minutes after the end of shift to get it all done and I’m 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

send me good vibes besties bc I need some positivity or I will explode into a thousand wooden splinters

[live-laugh-lenney]

anyone else been suffering cold and flu symptoms for about two months or is it just me?

[jewishbarbies]

I genuinely don’t understand the obsession with bringing back extinct species that don’t have a home anymore. the arctic can’t handle the animals in it right now (bc we’re killing it), WHERE are we putting a wooly mammoth?? where are we putting dinosaurs? where are we putting dodos? and WHY are we not putting that energy and funding into saving the species we still have while we have them?

[resident-rats]

I know I said the next chapter would be out at the start of the week but I didn’t manage to post it before the concert and now I feel like I’ve been ran over🕺🏻 so idk maybe around the weekend it’ll be out